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phyllaries glabrous. 3-4 -seriaie, obtuse.
nakcd, C'])sla lih.aRllipsoid or oblonB
disli.cr slendq-filifom concol@u beak
A smll genus with l0 spNies. diitibur€.t rn Soutbem Fircpe N Ahca SW and
Cef,ral Asia (Mabb.!ley. 1997) ln Paki$ln n is repre*ntd bt 4 raxa
NOTE: Recently. the genus tcat la F W Schnidt is considercd 6 the svnonvm of$e
gcnus !..r&c4 L. by Lack (200?) and Mabb€nev (2008) While Kiipicznikov (1964)'
letfrcy (19?i). R4hiager (1977). Brem.i (1994)a.d chaudhary (2000) keep th's genus
distiucr Rith 3,5, lo or2 specios rcspcctivelvTh€
Flores yellow,4 per clprtulm RecePlacle
or oblanceolatc. bown- blacl(' mpded into
or b€aLles: pappus uniFri{c, *hitc la8il€
g€nus Sc,ti'lo Fw schnrdi can
@adily bc distinsu6h.{l lron tbe ,.dr., L, bv rhe pcsence ol whne or Slossv st'm:
dauftnt l@!es *ilh linw lpp€tula8cs dd much rqruced caulinc lqles: 4 no@ts per
capirulun; ctlsela brown.black up to 8 mn long, b€ak concolorous and indislinct ln
rex tue or bakless Thus on the basis of above nmtioned c h a ractes rhe gen us S.4t!bl'
F.w, Schnidr is consi&rcd s m ind.p.nd.nt gens in th. pce vork
| + ClTsela 4-5 x 1.5 dm, nore or less teret€i nol
complsed, lruncate apically. Bcallike stnctlc
ibsnl Pappus nor fmaile.
- Cypsela 6-14 x I nn, not teE&, cohpressed. Beak-
like stnatm pEs.ni 2-8 m long, P.ppus iLclle.
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